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Working Girls
Palm Beach Story: Lilly Pulitzer Is Bizarrely Fascinating
"The 77-year-old designer and former grande dame of Palm Beach entertaining—in the Sixties and Seventies, her kitchen sat 26 for dinner—awaits guests perched on a chinoiserie-covered bench. She wears white slacks and a vintage Lilly shirt printed with white and yellow daisies, her feet bare but for the bright coral polish on her toes," describes a new W magazine profile. Everybody knows Lilly Pulitzer prints — the pink and green WASP uniforms that have signified Palm Beach privilege for half a century. Most of us would never wear them — but there's something compelling about this quintessential story of privilege, independence and success. And Lilly Pulitzer herself — brisk, eccentric, sans underpants — is a character for the books! More »
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mag hag
Allure's "New Narcissist" Not New, Maybe Not A Narcissist
"People do not pay attention to me the way they should," says "Cynthia," one subject of "The New Narcissist," Judith Newman's psych-trend piece in December Allure. "I know I deserve to be heard, and when I'm not, I get very angry," she continues. "I think people are frightened of me." Cynthia is an attractive, outspoken woman who has risen quickly to a high-powered TV exec position at 30. She's also an example of a disease supposedly sweeping the nation — successful people are, according to Newman, coming down with acquired situational narcissism (ASN) in which they ignore other people's needs and think everyone should bow down to them. And although the rich and powerful have been acting out since time immemorial (see Caligula), Newman thinks their antics are on the rise. More » -
Vanity, Fair?
Would Tina Fey Be A Star If She Still Looked Like This?
Commentary on the Tina Fey Vanity Fair cover is still rolling in, and most people are remarking on what Salon refers to as "The sexing up of Tina Fey." Salon's Sarah Hepola mentions Vanity Fair's focus on Fey's recent abundance of cleavage and her pre-SNL weight-loss. More » -
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the girly ghetto?
Hillary As Sec Of State: Some Call It The "Women's Spot"
Wait, did the women's movement suddenly stop being about obtaining and maintaining equality and start becoming about placing humans with the appropriate reproductive equipment in the biggest and best seats of political power, regardless of their politics? Did we miss a memo? Because with the latest round of kvetching about how Hillary Clinton's new gig is somehow a missed opportunity for the women's movement, it's starting to seem like it. More » -
Strictly Business
Sugar Daddies: Easier Than Work-Study For College Students
"Some might call it prostitution. I call it a 'mutually beneficial arrangement' that pays for my killer wardrobe." We just call it bizarre: a college student justifies her life as a professional mistress on The Daily Beast. Her verdict? Beats waitressing! More »
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mag hag
Vanity Fair: Tina Fey Drops 30 Pounds, Is Scarred For Life
Tina Fey looks lovely on the January 2009 cover of Vanity Fair, though, after reading the accompanying cover story by Maureen Dowd it's tempting to never mention her looks again. So much of the lengthy profile is devoted to marveling at the weight loss and makeover that transformed the "very mousy" Fey into everyone's favorite "brainy glamour-puss" that we almost wish Fey would revert to her "quite round" physique and dig out the thrift-store sweaters that she used to sport. However, the article is redeemed by featuring plenty of what really made Fey "A New American Sweetheart:" her funny quips, not her figure. A selection, after the jump. More » -
slave 4 us
Britney: On The Record: "I'm Sad"
Last night saw the premiere of MTV's documentary Britney: For the Record, which was shown without any commercial interruption (except for one spot for Brit's two different fragrances). Some of it was boring, some of it was interesting, but pretty much all of it was sad. While it's great to see Britney back in control again (and wearing pants on a regular basis), the control isn't hers — and she says as much. Back in the care of an army of handlers, everything looks better on the outside — her weave isn't a mess, her skin is clear, and she wears clothes without stains all over them — but even she admits that she feels less free than she did during her breakdown. It's like she had to choose between the hell she knows and the one she doesn't. In the clip above, she talks about how her life lacks any passion, and how she finds it better to have no feelings at all than to have hope of ever escaping this life, because the letdown is too difficult to deal with. -
oldies but goodies
A Career Romance For Young Moderns: Dreams To Shatter
"Polly thought her dream of creating beautiful, original pottery was over — broken like some fragile vase — but it was to come true in a totally unexpected way." In case you guessed that our latest career romance for young moderns, Virginia Kitzmiller's Dreams to Shatter was written in the 60s, you'd be right! 1967, to be precise, when ceramics were sweeping the nation! So: Potter's wheels, shattered dreams and, of course, romance — after the jump. More »
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oldies but goodies
The Way We Were: Life Magazine Photos Of Women In The 1950s
As previously posted, the Life magazine photo archive is now available online. The collection is estimated to consist of more than 10 million photos, many of which were never published in the magazine and only exist as negatives, slides and etchings. You can search the collection for historical images, and if you want to purchase framed prints, you can do that, too. We'll be taking a look at women in several decades (previously: the '30s and the '40s) and today, the full-of-change 1950s. The photos begin after the jump. More »
